git clone + install in Python

Question

Is there a one-liner shortcut for:

git clone https://github.com/user/mypythonmodule.git
cd mypythonmodule
python setup.py install
cd ..

like

git clone install https://github.com/user/mypythonmodule.git

or doesn't this exist?

git clone github.com/user/mypythonmodule.git && python mypythonmodule/setup.py install — Peter Clause
– Peter Clause, Commented May 21, 2015 at 8:33
@PeterClause: I tried but doesn't work because the current path won't be mypythonmodule with your solution — Basj
– Basj, Commented May 21, 2015 at 8:36

Stephen Paulger · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-21 09:06:28Z

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If you use pip it supports installing from git URLs.

From the pip documentation

"pip currently supports cloning over git, git+https and git+ssh"

So you would do

pip install git+https://github.com/user/mypythonmodule.git

edited May 21, 2015 at 9:06

answered May 21, 2015 at 8:36

Stephen Paulger

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3 Comments

Basj Over a year ago

Nice solution. I admit, that I first wanted to avoid asking target users to install pip, because on my Raspbian Wheezy : apt-get install python-pip installs pip + .... Python 2.6 on top of Python 2.7 ... :s ugly !

Stephen Paulger Over a year ago

Is Python 2.7 default in Raspbian Jessie? Alternatively if you have a python 2.7 easy_install you could install pip using that rather than apt.

cel Over a year ago

@StephenPaulger, does that really work without the git+prefix? For me it seems that it has to be pip install git+https://github.com/user/mypythonmodule.git

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